Actually I found a company that sells refurb’d macs. I found one there with an OS X, 512 ram, 80 gb hard drive for about 250. Is that a deal too good to be true?
It had a limited warranty also.
Probably wouldn't go with less than a gig of ram these days.
Thats sounds pretty good. If you Google the stores name - you will probably find a website which has reviews from people who have frequented the store.
See if it has OS 10.4 or later; that seems to be the dividing line for a lot of program compatibility.
You are missing important aspects of the machine. You don’t indicate what model and what cpu.
You can also get a G4 Apple Powerbook but really you should get a machine with the intel Core solo chip.
You can get an Apple Mac Mini for cheap if you already have a keyboard, mouse and monitor. Those are available for around $500.
Apple is rumored to have a new one in the pipeline too.